interpenetrate (u/interpenetrate)

interpenetrate commented on Meta's Mandatory Return to Office Is 'A Mess' businessinsider.com/meta-... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew

Timon3 · 2 years ago

Yes, it should be adults with good compensation. Child labor should never be acceptable to anyone, especially if you reap the rewards as described! I'd rather not live like a king quite as much, and have them have a better life. Or better yet, I'd rather have billionaires not exist and have both of us live like a king.

interpenetrate · 2 years ago

I've crunched the numbers. They just don't work without me giving up video games. And I'm not giving up video games!!

interpenetrate commented on Meta's Mandatory Return to Office Is 'A Mess' businessinsider.com/meta-... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew

Timon3 · 2 years ago

I didn't say that, or anything close to it. Funny how in your eyes the only way to not separate yourself from them is to literally do their job. Maybe you can ignore those 10 year olds in the quarries, but I think it's our responsibility to use our positions to improve their situations. It would be kind of neat if there weren't 10 year olds in the quarries, and they could instead go to school, no?

interpenetrate · 2 years ago

Then who's going to do the mining? Adults? Do you want your iPhone, your car, your video games, your shoes, your plane trips, or not? All that stuff is gonna be "cost prohibitive" if all of these quarry kids go to school and all if these factory workers go home early. Cause: These unfortunate saps work 14 hours a day, eat straw, and have the philosophical thoughts whipped out of their brains. Effect: We live like kings and post all kinds of philosophy online. Don't believe me about this causality? Good, then we can go back to living like kings. You keep posting about ethics, and I'll keep posting about epistemology.

interpenetrate commented on Meta's Mandatory Return to Office Is 'A Mess' businessinsider.com/meta-... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew

Timon3 · 2 years ago

I sure don't! I want them to have it as good as I do, and I want to use my influence to make it so. This can only work if we are one group.

interpenetrate · 2 years ago

You want to trade off positions with those 10 year olds in the quarries? That's fine. I'd rather go home at night to my family, watch The Wire with my wife for the tenth time, and then when everyone goes to sleep I'd like to come here and post on Hacker News. Please report back with your experiences.

interpenetrate commented on Meta's Mandatory Return to Office Is 'A Mess' businessinsider.com/meta-... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew

hotpotamus · 2 years ago

I wonder how senior tech executives see those below them? I suspect they'd say much the same about you.

interpenetrate · 2 years ago

I don't know about that. I'm on a first name basis with my CTO. I hope to never see in person those wretched souls mining the cobalt for my Tesla. Ghastly!

interpenetrate commented on Meta's Mandatory Return to Office Is 'A Mess' businessinsider.com/meta-... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew

efaref · 2 years ago

The more I think about it, the more I come to the conclusion that the "middle class" was a fiction invented by the capital class to divide the working class in two and pit them against each other. If you or someone in your family has to work so that you can survive, you are working class.

interpenetrate · 2 years ago

You don't want to be divided from the miners who extract the minerals and the factory workers who assemble the crappy tech that we design? I do. It's absolutely squalid over there.

interpenetrate commented on Chronic fatigue syndrome may have a post-viral infection origin medicalxpress.com/news/20... · Posted by u/wglb

lindsaywaterman · 2 years ago

Yes, there's a lot of terminology out there to describe this constellation of symptoms/the process of CSS. The sarno stuff is getting a lot more attention these days as "psychopysiologic" therapy. Things are moving in a good direction and I'm hopefull that repression will be characterized neurophysiologically. See the references I posted to another comment.

interpenetrate · 2 years ago

Thanks for the articles, I'll have to catch up.

interpenetrate commented on Chronic fatigue syndrome may have a post-viral infection origin medicalxpress.com/news/20... · Posted by u/wglb

lindsaywaterman · 2 years ago

Physician here. Imo CFS is best understood as the endpoint of an evolution within the nervous system that is increasingly called "central sensitization syndrome." (CSS) This syndrome is caused by a chronic dissociative or avoidant stress response, usually having it's origin in early childhood adversity. Prior to developing CFS, most individuals have other manifestations of CSS, such as IBS, chronic pain, TMD, etc. Every new stress, be it a viral syndrome, a grief event, a difficult move of house, what-have-you, can cause CSS to further evolve, eventually arriving at CFS. The average CFSer has 5 other CSS syndromes. Treatment is pacing and mindfulness. This treats the underlying issue of chronic avoidance/dissociation. See cfsselfhelp.org.

interpenetrate · 2 years ago

This is my first time hearing "central sensitization syndrome." I know back ~5 years ago John Sarno's "tension myoneural syndrome" was still the dominant diagnosis in the self-help circles of mindbody illness, and it at least had the mechanism of repression to enrich its explanatory power. Still a far cry from the richness of psychoanalytic theory, but at least it was a move in the right direction after such an epic retreat from Freud. Central sensitization syndrome seems like such a concession to the medical model, which I guess puts it in alignment with the poverty of therapy ("mindfulness," etc.).

interpenetrate commented on The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated understandingai.org/p/the... · Posted by u/tim_sw

ericd · 2 years ago

I still think that saying "Tesla chose to kill people by shipping a low quality system." is a strong allegation. I don't think it's reasonable to speak with that kind of certainty about an unknown. If your other comment is correct, that's a shame that they haven't been required to make that data public.

interpenetrate · 2 years ago

A rupture: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EksIy3aW0AEIsK-?format=jpg

interpenetrate commented on Shanghai Disney shuts: Visitors unable to leave without negative Covid test bbc.com/news/world-asia-6... · Posted by u/b0ner_t0ner

dirtyid · 3 years ago

> West because we have working vaccines

PRC vaccines work about as well as western ones in preventing serious cases, which is to say western vaccines suck as much as PRC vaccines post delta when they couldn't do the one thing that distinguished themselves - preventing spread (which from recent Pfizer drama they didn't even test for so mRNA was... never substantially superior). Hence the entire narrative around superior mRNA wank is ridiculous considering how little benefits it has especially with extra cold chain requirements or just the geopolitics of trusting unreliable foreign govs.

Combine with west being systemically incapable of containing covid and PRC still left with only obvious choice of exercising superior state capcity to zero covid which prevents millions of deaths using stats of mRNA effectiveness in neighbouring east Asian countries. They're still locking down because state capacity > science, including the wests. Plenty of people are still dying from covid every week while 1/5 has long covid. Capitulating to living with covid due to lack of choice =/= covid's over.

interpenetrate · 3 years ago

The scope of Science has been set by private capital, but the Chinese lockdown is very clearly a scientific endeavor. Might as well compare vaccines vs. lockdown as two scientifically-informed tactics, although the two aren't mutually exclusive, as in the case of China.